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"Struggling with some of the language used (damn historical fiction 😂) but it’s about books and apparently real events! So I am not deterred yet!" — May 20, 2023 02:29PM
"Struggling with some of the language used (damn historical fiction 😂) but it’s about books and apparently real events! So I am not deterred yet!" — May 20, 2023 02:29PM
“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― Call Me by Your Name
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― Call Me by Your Name
“How's things, buddy?" Trey asks after we run through a few finger-warming exercises. I realize this is what people call small talk. I also realize the world would be a better place without it.”
― What to Say Next
― What to Say Next
“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The list went on.”
― The Girl Who Drank the Moon
― The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― The Analects
― The Analects
“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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